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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Phyton, le mervilleus serpent
Language: French (Français) 
 Phyton, le mervilleus serpent
 Que Phebus de sa flesche occit.
 Avoit la longueur d'un erpent,
 Si com Ovides le descrit.
 Mais onques homs serpent ne vit
 Si fel, si crueus ne fier
 Com le serpent qui m'escondit,
 Quant à ma dame merci quier.

 Il ha sept chiés, et vraiement,
 Chascuns à son tour contredit
 La grace, où mon vray desir tent,
 Dont mes cuers an doleur languit:
 Ce sont Refus, Desdaing, Despit,
 Honte, Paour, Durte, Dangier,
 Qui me blessent en l'esperit,
 Quant à ma dame merci quier.

 Si ne puis durer longuement,
 Car ma dame tres douce rit
 Et prent deduit en mon tourment
 Et ès meschiés, où mes cuers vit.
 Ce me destruit, ce me murdrit,
 Ce me fait plaindre et larmoier,
 Ce me partue et desconfit,
 Quant à ma dame merci quier.

Text Authorship:

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Phyton, le mervilleus serpent" [vocal trio], ballade [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 135

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